Truthout
Surveillance

|
How Did “Don’t Mess with the Money” Become the NSA’s Motto?
In one corner of America, we need lots more snooping.

|
Who is Watching the Watchers?
There needs to be a national conversation about an emerging police state, and who is watching the watchers.

|
ACLU: Documents Show Effort of Police and US Marshals to Deceive Courts in Use of Controversial “Stringrays“
The ACLU has uncovered instructions from the US Marshals Service that appear to tell police to actively deceive judges and defendants about the use of the controversial surveillance tool …

Secret Collaboration Between the Power of Force and the Pursuit of Profit
Secret collaboration between profit-making corporations and public agencies, such as the FBI and the NSA, which are empowered to target citizens for investigation and potential punishment, have brought down …

Beyond Drones and Stop-and-Frisk
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.

|
How the NSA Criminally Aids Criminal Cases
Not only have the Executive and Legislative branches been corrupted by establishing, funding, hiding and promoting unconstitutional surveillance programs for over 12 years, but the Judicial branch has been …

|
Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
The merger of online and offline data is bringing more intrusive tracking.

The Supreme Court Confronts 21st Century Technology
Two Supreme Court case decisions may significantly alter the way we capture, store, and consume information and the extent to which we can expect privacy with regard to, or …

|
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You – He Already Has You
Nowadays, in Fortress America, every one of us is, in some sense, government issue in a surveillance state gone mad.

Does Snowden Know Why the NSA Doesn’t Need Warrants? He Might.
Parsing Edward Snowden's email to the NSA, and former NSA head Michael Hayden's public statements, leads to a suspicion there may an executive order distorting the Fourth Amendment.